Mobile Phones

**spanchal** · 19-03-2003, 12:11

Hello,

I am visiting Florida next Monday and hoping to use my triband mobile phone whist out there. I was wondering if there is pay as you talk system out there where I can purchase SIM card and top up as necessary. If I use my UK network to roam, it may get a little expensive and I do not want to receive my normal calls whilst I am out there.

Sam

**Harmony** · 19-03-2003, 12:34

Hi Sam,

I can't help you about purchasing a SIM out there, but I can confirm roaming with a tri-band is expensive. I'm with Orange and it costs me £1.10 per min when I'm in the US, even when recieving calls.

I hope you get a positive response to your posting as it would help me too.

Jeff

**Biggus** · 19-03-2003, 12:42

Spanchal,
We are going out Saturday, and we too (my wife and I) are taking our triband moby on Orange with us, what we have done this week is send EVERYONE in both our phonebooks a txt message stating that we are on holiday in the US until the 6th April and calling our moby will cost them money as well as us, and only to call in a dire emergency, this worked fine last time we went away. As you say the roaming profile from moby operators is expensive but just for peace of mind we are taking it with us (my wifes Nan is not very well and she would like to know - not that we would necessarily do anything about coming home etc.)
Have a good time - I can't wait..........

**caroline** · 19-03-2003, 14:10

We took our cellnet mobiles with us last October, and found it really useful and not THAT expensive, we had some international reduced rate "thing" added to our tariffs - I made probably around 2 or 3 calls a day for the 2 weeks we were away, and my bill was only about £30 more than normal. Definitely worth it for the convenience.
We have an IDT account, for normal phone calls.

**fiona** · 19-03-2003, 14:53

We have 3 phones between us that our triband and we always take them with us. Despite the teenagers phoning us at the drop of the hat (I want to show you this skirt mum!) our combined bills were only £20.

We have to have the ability to be contactable for our business - although I have to say it seems quicker for them to contact me by e-mail as when they leave messages they often take 4 or 5 days to come through!

CB - why don't you be a good boy and tootle off to college and do some real work?

**steph_goodrum** · 19-03-2003, 16:33

We have an answerphone in the villa so anybody can leave us a message in an emergency so it will never be more than 12 hours before we get back and also a tracfone pay as you go, in case we break down when we are out. We asked about sim cards about 5 years ago and they said all their models were sim free or not compatible.

**netmum** · 19-03-2003, 16:59

We can't use our mobile phones abroad, so have been considering walkie talkies as a way of keeping in touch when we separate at the parks, or shopping malls.

Any advice on using and buying these, and whether they work?

Thanks

Rebecca

**floridadreamvilla.co.uk** · 19-03-2003, 17:28

We used some walkie talkies we bought from Wal-Mart last time we were in Florida and found them indispensable, especially in the parks.

They had lots of channels to choose from and we did not find the channels very congensted. Well worth looking into if you ask me

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